Data Science Blog | Best Practices

Bringing ML to Agriculture: Transforming a Millennia-old Industry

Guest post by Jeff Melching from The Climate Corporation At The Climate Corporation, we aim to help farmers better understand their operations and...

Data Science Code AWS Homepage Featured Main Machine Learning Practical Techniques Model Production Data Science Education Data Scientists Best Practices Feature Engineering Climate data Model Development model

The Importance of Structure, Coding Style, and Refactoring in Notebooks

Notebooks are increasingly crucial in the data scientist's toolbox. Although considered relatively new, their history traces back to systems like...

Data Science Code Code Featured Machine Learning Practical Techniques Best Practices

Data Science at The New York Times

Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, presented "Data Science at the New York Times" at Rev. Wiggins advocated that data...

Data Science Leaders At Work Model Management Machine Learning Leaders At Work Featured Data Science Leaders Rev Data Scientists Chris Wiggins Best Practices Data Science Leaders at Work data Managing Data Science

0.05 is an Arbitrary Cut Off: "Turning Fails into Wins”

Grace Tang, Data Scientist at Uber, presented insights, common pitfalls, and “best practices to ensure all experiments are useful” in her Strata...

Data Science Model Management Practical Techniques Data Analysis Data Scientists Challenge Assumptions Best Practices Model Context Reproducibility data Model Development Bias Domino Data Science Field Note

Emotional Intelligence for Data Science Teams

We surveyed and interviewed some of our most successful customers to learn how they align their data science team with their business. The challenges...

Data Science Leaders At Work Best Practices Culture data Managing Data Science

What Data Scientists Should Know About Hiring, Sharing, and Collaborating

In this post we summarize some of our most recent and favorite answers on Quora to questions from the community about hiring junior data scientists,...

Data Science Leaders At Work Data Scientists Best Practices data Managing Data Science

Principles of Collaboration in Data Science

Data science is no longer a specialization of a single person or small group. It is now a key source of competitive advantage, and as a result, the...

Data Science Leaders At Work Model Management Data Science Teams Practical Techniques Data Science Leaders Data Scientists Best Practices IT Leaders Models Reproducibility data model

Introducing the Data Science Maturity Model

Many organizations have been underwhelmed by the return on their investment in data science. This is due to a narrow focus on tools, rather than a...

Data Science Leaders At Work Model Management Data Science Teams Best Practices Data Science Maturity Model model

The "Joel Test" for Data Science

It's the sixteenth anniversary of Joel Spolsky's "Joel Test," which he described as a "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a...

Data Science Leaders At Work Practical Techniques Data Scientists Best Practices

Reproducible Research in Computational Sciences

This guest post was written by Arnu Pretorius, a Masters student in Mathematical Statistics at the MIH Media Lab, Stellenbosch University. Arnu's...

Data Science Scientific Method Domino Product Domino Practical Techniques Best Practices Reproducibility data

Data Science Platform: What is it? Why is it Important?

As more companies recognize the need for a [data science platform], more vendors are claiming they have one. Increasingly, we see companies...

Data Science Leaders At Work Data Science Leaders Knowledge Management Data Scientists Best Practices IT Leaders Model Development Data Science Platform

Providing Digital Provenance: from Modeling through Production

At last week's useR! R User conference, I spoke on digital provenance, the importance of reproducible research, and how Domino has solved many of the...

Data Science Code Model Management Domino Practical Techniques Model Production R Best Practices Reproducibility data model

Ugly Little Bits of the Data Science Process

This morning there was a great conversation on Twitter, kicked off by Hadley Wickham, about one of the ugly little bits of the data science process.

Data Science Code Domino Practical Techniques R Knowledge Management Best Practices Reproducibility Engine

How Machine Learning Amplifies Inequality in Society

This talk took place at the Domino Data Science Pop-up in Austin, TX on April 13, 2016 In this talk, Mike Williams, Research Engineer at Fast...

Data Science Machine Learning Practical Techniques Best Practices Domino Data Popup

Uber and the Need for a Data Science Platform

For those wondering if data science platforms are really a thing, there’s a great article by Kevin Novak, the head of Uber’s Data Science Platform...

Data Science Leaders At Work Data Science Teams Practical Techniques Best Practices data Data Science Platform

Analyzing Large P Small N Data - Examples from Microbiome